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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

 

Current News & Views

·        VICTOR’S JUSTICE: Former Vice President Under Saddam Hussein Hanged

Only 18 per cent of Iraqis trust US forces

·        Most Iraqis Support Attacks on US, British Forces

March 18, 2007 | An Iraqi girl looks at a US soldier on patrol in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad. Basic foods and necessities are now increasingly beyond the reach of ordinary Iraqis as inflation soars due to the destruction of the already-shaky Iraqi economy, cuts to state subsidies encouraged by the International Monetary Fund and the Coalition Provisional Authority, and the disruption of the oil industry.
(Photo: Adil al-Khazali / AP)

·        Saturday: 8 GIs, 64 Iraqis Killed, 401 Iraqis Injured

·        Sunday: 38 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 24 Iraqis Wounded

·        Monday: 123 Iraqis Killed, 142 Wounded

·        Tuesday: 143 Iraqis, 5 GIs Killed, 124 Iraqis Wounded

March 19, 2007 | US soldiers from 2-12 Infantry Battalion tend to a comrade overcome by shock after an IED explosion during a patrol in Baghdad. For some US troops on the dangerous streets of Baghdad, news that their deployment in Iraq could be extended led to comments such as this one from a vehicle commander: "We just want to get out of here as soon as possible."
(Photo: David Furst / AFP)

·        Iraqis Increasingly Pessimistic, Anti-US

·        From Hope to Despair in Baghdad

·        Poll: Most Iraqis Live in Fear of Violence Four Years After Invasion

U.S. Troop Deaths Show Sunni Resilience

·        Bush in Iraq war 'patience' plea

·        Officials: US Military in 'Death Spiral'

·        SHADOW ARMY: Bush’s Private Praetorian Guard (Article/Video)

·        The Islamo-Fascist Rationale for Abandoning Liberty

·        The Terror Threat in Perspective: Ivan Eland

·        Italy hopes to mend U.S. ties after CIA indictment

Washington’s ‘Israel Lobby’ Problem

·        AIPAC: Bad for America and Israel: George Soros

·        Pelosi’s Capitulation, The AIPAC Girl: by Patrick Buchanan

·        Can American Jews Unplug the Israel Lobby?  by Gary Kamiya

·        Palestinians soften line with new union BUT…

·        Israel says “No” to Peace - moves to isolate new Palestinian coalition cabinet, BUT…

·        Norway recognizes new PA Unity gov't, to restore economic ties

·        Norway-Hamas link angers Israel

·        EU Allows Contacts with Non-Hamas Unity Ministers and Invites Fayyad to Brussels for Aids

·        Lift boycott on the Palestinians, says Egypt's foreign minister

·        U.S. Envoy, Palestinians Reportedly Meet

·        Israel and U.S. hold joint ‘defense’ exercise

·        DM: Israel Preparing for War With Everyone

·        Israel’s last chance

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Forget Israel, Befriend Russia!

By Charley Reese

3.18.07

 

(Excerpt)

A little more than half of the U.S. population lives in 75 metropolitan areas. Russia has 4,399 nuclear warheads deployed. Except for 624 to be carried by bombers, they are all land-based and submarine missiles.

Furthermore, this past week Russia test-fired a land-based missile, the RSM54, and a submarine-launched missile. Both were intercontinental. Both hit their targets dead-on. The sub launch was, by the way, the sixth such test-firing conducted this year.

In the meantime, Iran has no nuclear weapons and no intercontinental ballistic missiles or long-range bombers. North Korea might have two or three nuclear missiles. Yet the administration, and most of America's news media, seems obsessed with Iran, no doubt because Israel is obsessed with Iran. A story by the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC] played a lobbying role in deleting a provision in the defense bill that would have required the president to get Congress' OK before launching a war against Iran.

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·        Russia: Washington's hard line position against Iran's nuclear program complicates the resolution of the Iranian nuclear crisis

·        Robert Fisk: US power games in the Middle East

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For Ever Increasing Numbers, The Desire For Peace Remains Strong…

 

 

·        Thousands of anti-war protestors march on Pentagon

 

·        Christians Gather in D.C. to Protest War

·        More Than 200 Christian Protestors Arrested Outside White House

·        Christians Worship, March in Protest of Iraq War

·        War Protests to Move to NY, West Coast After March on Pentagon

·        Antiwar Protesters Outside of NY Stock Exchange Arrested

·        Over 400 Anti-War Protests Held Across Canada And The Globe

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·        Washington ‘Engineers’ Secret ‘Rendition’ of U.S. Citizen to Ethiopia - Imprisonment of US citizen in Ethiopia raises concerns [Additional Perspective]

·        DoD: Cole Bombing Chief ‘Confessed’ at Gitmo

·        Germany Warns US on Missile Shield Plan

·        SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED! Study finds 1/3 of D.C. Illiterate!

·        D.C. Madam Case Leads to Speculation

Cartoons

·        Light At The End Of The Tunnel Bruce Beattie, Florida -- Daytona Beach News-Journal

·        FBI eavesdropping Olle Johansson, Sweden, Norra Vasterbotten

·        A Tortured Confession Rainer Hachfeld, Berlin, Germany, Neues Deutschland

·        Cheney Retirement Plan Patrick Chappatte, Geneva daily "Le Temps", Sunday edition of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung

·        Bush Wants Your Money Alexander Zudin, Obshaya Gazeta, St. Petersburg, Russia

·        The Urge To Purge Monte Wolverton, The Wolvertoon

·         Bush, A ‘Fruitful’ Trip Guy Badeaux (Bado), Ottawa - Journal LeDroit

 

 

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An extraordinarily prescient TV interview with General Norman Schwarzkopf and Robert Gates - Deputy National Security Advisor to Former President George Bush Sr.

 

Why Invading Iraq Was A Very Stupid Idea…

 

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